PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has called for Mandla Msibi to immediately step aside, after the MEC of agriculture in Mpumalanga appeared in the Nelspruit magistrate’s court on Monday on charges of murder as a result of a deadly ANC branch meeting in August.
Msibi was remanded after handing himself over to the police. Business Day reliably understands that he was involved in a violent incident at an ANC branch meeting that left two people shot dead, and two others wounded.
Ramaphosa said the party’s rules are clear, and the MEC will have to account to the integrity commission.
“We’ve got a straightforward rule. You’ve got to step aside from the position that you occupy and you’ve got to be answerable to the integrity commission… These types of things are handled automatically to maintain the integrity of the ANC. Whatever and whoever it is, has to comply with rules and protocols of the ANC in that regard,” he said.
Msibi, who is also an ANC provincial executive committee (PEC) member and its head of elections in the province, handed himself over to the police on Monday morning in the company of his lawyer, Coert Jordaan.
Msibi’s arrest relates to a shooting incident that happened near Coyote’s Shisa Nyama – a popular drinking spot in Mbombela – on August 22.
- Inside Politics
